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Louisville- City Information

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The city's estimated population as of 2009 was 721,594 with a population of 1,266,454 in the
Louisville metropolitan area. An important internal shipping port in the 19th century, Louisville is today most well known for the Kentucky Derby, the widely
watched first race of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. The settlement that became the city of Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark
and is named after King Louis XVI of France. Twelve of the 15 buildings in Kentucky over 300 feet (91 m) are located in downtown Louisville.

Louisville Economy

Louisville's early economy first developed through the shipping and cargo industries. Its strategic location at the Falls of the Ohio, as well as its unique
position in the central United States (within one day's road travel to 60% of the cities in the continental U.S.) make it an ideal location for the transfer of
cargo along its route to other destinations. Recently, Louisville has emerged as a major center for the health care and medical sciences industries.
Louisville has been central to advancements in heart and hand surgery as well as cancer treatment. Some of the earliest artificial heart transplants were
conducted in Louisville. Louisville's thriving downtown medical research campus includes a new $88 million rehabilitation center, and a health sciences
research and commercialization park that, in partnership with the University of Louisville, has lured nearly 70 top scientists and researchers. Louisville is
also home to Humana, one of the nation's largest health insurance companies. Louisville is home to several major corporations and organizations: Brown Forman
Corporation (Fortune 1000) Hillerich & Bradsby (manufacturer of Louisville Slugger baseball bats), Hilliard Lyons (investment firm), Humana (Fortune 100),
Kindred Healthcare Incorporated (Fortune 500), Norton Healthcare, Papa John's Pizza, PharMerica (Fortune 1000), Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Republic Bank &
Trust Company, SHPS (healthcare and human resources services company), Stock Yards Bank & Trust, Texas Roadhouse, Thorntons Inc., Yum! Brands (owners of KFC,
Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell which were formerly Tricon Global Restaurants (a spin-off of PepsiCo) as well as Long John Silver's and A & W Restaurants which were
formerly Yorkshire Global Restaurants) (Fortune 500), ZirMed (health care technology company). Louisville for a long time was also home to Brown & Williamson,
the third largest company in the tobacco industry before merging with R. J. Reynolds in 2004 to form the Reynolds American Company. Brown & Williamson, one of
the subjects of the tobacco industry scandals of the 1990s, was the focus of The Insider, a 1999 film shot around the Louisville area. Also located in
Louisville are two major Ford plants, and a major General Electric appliance factory. Additionally, one third of all of the bourbon whiskey comes from
Louisville. The Brown Forman Corporation is one of the major makers of bourbon, which is headquartered in Louisville. Other major distilleries of bourbon can
be found both in the city of Louisville, and in neighboring cities in Kentucky. Louisville also prides itself in its large assortment of small, independent
businesses and restaurants, some of which have become known for their ingenuity and creativity. In 1926 the Brown Hotel became the home of the Hot Brown
"sandwich". A few blocks away, the Seelbach Hotel, which F. Scott Fitzgerald references in The Great Gatsby, is also famous for a secret back room where Al
Capone would regularly meet with associates during the Prohibition era. The drink the Old Fashioned was invented in Louisville's Pendennis Club. Several major
motion pictures have also been filmed in or near Louisville, including Goldfinger, Stripes, The Insider, Lawn Dogs, Elizabethtown and Secretariat.

Poised on the banks of the Ohio River, Louisville blends small-town charm with urban sophistication. The city's claim to fame is the Kentucky Derby. The
race at Churchill Downs has been a national event for more than 120 years. Many of us first learned of the city from a baseball bat. Today, the rebuilt
Louisville Slugger Factory is another major draw. The city itself has been revitalized with a bustling riverfront district that features the inviting
Riverfront Plaza. Tourists may take scenic river cruises aboard The Belle or The Star. Louisville is also blessed with a dynamic arts scene, featuring the
Kentucky Center for the Arts, as well as several fine museums and annual festivals. For dining, the city offers about 2,500 restaurants, highlighted by the
festive "Restaurant Row" on the Bardstown Road corridor. Louisville is home to a number of annual cultural events. Perhaps most well-known is the Kentucky
Derby, held annually during the first Saturday of May. The Derby is preceded by a two-week long Kentucky Derby Festival, which starts with the annual Thunder
Over Louisville, the largest annual fireworks display in the nation. The Kentucky Derby Festival also features notable events such as the Pegasus Parade, The
Great Steamboat Race, Great Balloon Race, a marathon, and about seventy events in total. Esquire magazine has called the Kentucky Derby "the biggest party in
the south."Usually beginning in late February or early March is the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, an internationally
acclaimed new-play festival that lasts approximately six weeks. On Memorial Day weekend, Louisville hosts the largest annual Beatles Festival in the world,
Abbey Road on the River. The festival lasts five days and is located on the Belvedere in downtown Louisville. The summer season in Louisville also features a
series of cultural events such as the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival (commonly called Shakespeare in the Park), held in July of every year and features free
Shakespeare plays in Central Park in Old Louisville. June sees the relatively new addition of Louisville Pride festivities, including an annually growing and
media-covered gay-pride parade through the streets of downtown Louisville and picnic at the Belvedere. The Kentucky State Fair is held every August at the
Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville as well, featuring an array of culture from all areas of Kentucky. In places, the African American community
celebrates Juneteenth commemorating June 19, 1865, when slaves in the western territories learned of their freedom. Since 2007, Louisville has been host to
the annual Ironman Louisville triathlon in August, one of only eight Ironman events in North America. In 2009, 2352 participants finished the course.[68]
The annual Bluegrass Balloon Festival. In September is the Bluegrass Balloon Festival, the fifth largest hot air balloon festival in the nation. The festival
features early morning balloon races, as well as balloon glows in the evening. In September, in nearby Bardstown, is the annual Kentucky Bourbon Festival,
which features some of the finest bourbon in the world. The suburb of Jeffersontown is also the home of the annual Gaslight Festival, a series of events spread
over a week. Attendance is approximately 200,000 for the week. The month of October features the St. James Court Art Show in Old Louisville. Thousands of
artists gather on the streets and in the courtyard to exhibit and sell their wares, and the event is attended by many art collectors and enthusiasts. The show
is the second most-attended event next to the Derby. Also in October is the World's Largest Halloween Party at the Louisville Zoo.

College sports are very popular in the Louisville area, especially college basketball. The Louisville Cardinals rank first nationally in percent to capacity
attendance annually, with Freedom Hall averaging better than 100 percent for 10 straight years. The Cardinals ranked 4th in actual attendance in 2007, although
they will likely pass Syracuse and North Carolina in attendance when the new 22,000 seat KFC Yum! Center is completed in 2010. The Cardinals also hold the Big
East conference women's basketball paid attendance record with nearly 17,000 attending the game against the Kentucky Wildcats in 2008. The Louisville market
has ranked first in ratings for the NCAA men's basketball tournament every year since 1999. The Kentucky Wildcats also play an annual game in Freedom Hall,
although attendance has declined steadily in recent years, with only 10,163 fans attending the 2008 game, only 54% of Freedom Hall's capacity.

Louisville Colleges and Universities

Louisville is home to several institutions of higher learning. There are five four-year universities, the University of Louisville, Bellarmine University,
Spalding University, Sullivan University, and Simmons College of Kentucky; a two-year community college, Jefferson Community and Technical College; and several
other business or technical schools such as Spencerian College, ITT Technical Institute, Strayer University and Louisville Technical Institute. Indiana
University Southeast is located across the Ohio River in New Albany, Indiana. The University of Louisville has notable achievements including the discovery of
the world's first cervical cancer vaccine, several hand transplants, and the world's first wireless artificial heart transplant. The school's Health Sciences
Center in Downtown Louisville is currently adding an expansive medical research market on the city's old Haymarket site, which is projected to add 10,000 high
paying jobs within 10 years. Two major graduate professional schools of religion are also located in Louisville. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,
with more than 2,000 students, is the flagship institution of the Southern Baptist Convention. It was founded in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1859 and moved
to Louisville in 1877, occupying its present campus on Lexington Road in 1926. Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, product of a 1901 merger of two
predecessor schools founded at Danville, Kentucky in 1853 and in Louisville in 1893, occupied its present campus on Alta Vista Road in 1963. If you are a
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Louisville Public Transportation

Public transportation consists mainly of buses run by the Transit Authority of River City (TARC). The city buses serve all parts of downtown Louisville and
Jefferson County, as well as Kentucky suburbs in Oldham County, Bullitt County, and the Indiana suburbs of Jeffersonville, Clarksville and New Albany. Use
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